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of' the Manchester manufactures will afford but an imperfect idea of the grandeur of its general trade, the vastness of its works, the ingenuity of its pro- cesses, and the perfection of its machinery. To form a compleat notion of these, you must con- ceive a population of between seventy and eighty thousand people, for the most part busily employed in the various branches of useful manufactures; the whole mighty wheel moved, invigorated, and accelerated by a capital of ten millions of money.

Your's, &c.

R. W.

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